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Thorsten Schnier wrote:
> 
> Andrew Berry <andyb@spruce.dstc.edu.au> writes:
> 
> >
> > I've just installed RedHat Linux (Picasso 1.2.13) on my PC and am having
> > performance problems with some X applications.  I'd appreciate any
> > advice from readers of this group.
> >
> > My PC is a 486sx25 (OK, OK, I know, its out of the Ark :-) with 16Mb
> > RAM.  I find that text oriented programs like emacs, the window manager
> > and xterm run beautifully, but anything with a heavy graphics component
> > effectively locks up my machine.  For example, it takes about 5 minutes
> > just to start arena (the WWW browser), and my machine does not respond
> > to keyboard or mouse input while it is starting.  There is little or no
> > disk activity (so it isn't swapping or loading huge globs of data from
> > the disk).  GhostView behaves similarly.
> >
> > Some possibilities:
> >
> >   * I need faster graphics hardware (I have a cirrus logic 5428 chipset)
> >   * I need a DX processor with maths on-chip
> >   * Linux has weird scheduling that gives up everything to loading
> >     processes
> >
> > Any suggestions?

If you check out Redhat's web site you will find an errata page for the
Picasso Release which 
should explain the performance problems you are experiencing. Apparently
the X binaries in the
distribution have been statically linked. This means that these binaries
do not use the shared
libaries when running and so gobble memory like it's going out of style.

The solution is to download the new X binaries package from Redhat and
use rpm to upgrade. It's 
about 6M. 

There are also some other upgrade packages you may want to get as well. 

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Robert